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Sociology and the Internet, Social Media, and Mobile Social Software

Video: The Social Life of Small Urban Spaces

February 19th, 2009 · No Comments

Harry Brignull, a User Experience Consultant, recently mentioned this on the Anthrodesign email list: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S2GfOhFZkY8 This is one of the great works of empirical sociology: using a time lapse camera (and an analog clock) to study the flow of people over time through several spaces in New York City in the 1970s. The associated books, [...]

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Tags: Collective Action · Community · Research · Sensors · Sociology

Electrification of the Interaction Order, or, eGoffman

February 18th, 2009 · 3 Comments

The great sociologist Erving Goffman wrote a number of influential works about a domain of social life he called the “interaction order”, the realm of interactions between people.  Goffman studied how interactions are structured in the most common settings like how people pass by each other in hallways, manage eye contact, or show that they [...]

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